On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:31:10PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > We're talking about 5 or 6 instructions on x86. > If it's getting too big, put it out-of-line. It probably > belongs out-of-line in it's current form anyways.
I don't think that's a good idea, sorry - make a very common inline considerably bigger and/or slower just to make sparc64 debugging easier. And yes this stuff does matter - i remember i got LM benchmarkable improvements in signal latency by optimizing __copy_to_user to use optimized inlines for small stores. -Andi
